xAI’s notorious data centers near Memphis, Tenn., are appropriately named Colossus 1 and Colossus 2. The supercomputers that ...

The development of data centers has boomed in recent years, with the United States accounting for about half of the world's ...

We set out to identify every data center in Maricopa County's energy capacity and identify how water use varied among ...

The rise of AI data centers has sparked panic about how to provide enough electricity to support new development without ...

The Arizona Republic used air quality records to estimate how much energy could be guzzled by data centers in Maricopa County ...

These facilities use excessive amounts of electricity and water. Development plans are being discussed in Polk, Palm Beach, ...

The facilities are hitting an inflection point in Arizona. In some areas, they are met with grassroots resistance. In others, ...

Part one of our Keep Calm and Count the Kilowatts series showed how AI prompts are only a small portion of a person's daily power use. Part two explored how AI’s power, water and carbon footprints ...

Environmental regulators last week said the “Project Washington” data center proposed by Starwood Digital Ventures doesn’t meet Coastal Zone Act regulations. It proposes using 516 diesel-powered ...

Many local communities are considering or putting in place moratoriums on data centers, as it becomes a campaign issue ahead ...